NOVEMBER 11, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1902 - Webley Edwards, radio news reporter, host of the radio show "Hawaii Calls" for 37 years, and producer/compiler of Capitol Records' "Hawaii Calls" series of albums, is born in Corvallis, Oregon
1920 - Annisteen Allen, singer and Capitol Records artist (1954-1955) who introduced the song "Fujiyama Mama" in 1955 that was later covered by fellow Capitol Records artist Wanda Jackson, is born Ernestine Letitia Allen in Champaign, Illinois
1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and compiler/producer of the 1989 Capitol Records album "Hillbilly Music: Thank God!, Vol. 1", is born in Detroit, Michigan

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - The King Cole Trio's first Capitol Records single (#139) "All For You" with "Vom, Vim, Veedle" on the flipside, hits #1 on Billboard's Harlem Hit Parade chart. The record was originally released on by Excelsior Records. Capitol Records bought the masters when it signed the trio.
1957 - Capitol Records releases Stan Freberg's single "Wun'erful, Wun'erful", a parody of "The Lawrence Welk Show" that covered both sides of the single which were labeled "Side Uh-One" and "Side Uh-Two"
1963 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins"
1965 - Buck Owens records his self-penned track "Dust On Mother's Bible" for his upcoming Capitol Records album of the same name with producer Ken Nelson and The Buckaroos
1965 - The Beatles record the tracks "You Won't See Me" and "Girl", each in just two takes, as well as overdubs for the tracks "Wait" and "I'm Looking Through You" from 6:00 PM to 7:00 AM in Studio Two at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England with producer George Martin, recording engineer Norman Smith and second engineer Ken Scott
1972 - Johnny Rivers' United Artists Records single "Rockin' Pnuemonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu", with "Come Home America" on the flip side, debuts at #37 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Capitol Records parent company, EMI Music, currently owns the United Artists catalog.
1977 - Capitol Records releases Wings' "double A" sided single "Mull Of Kintyre" with "Girls' School" on the flip side
1993 - Capitol Records band Blind Melon appear nude on the cover of the magazine Rolling Stone with lead singer Shannon Hoone's hair braided into pig-tails
2002 - Capitol Records Australia releases Dead Ringer Band's compilation CD "Very Best Of...So Far"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1927 - Mose Allison, songwriter, pianist, and Blue Note Records artist (1987-), is born in Tippo, Mississippi. Blue Note Records is currently a subsidiary of Capitol Records and its catalog is currently owned by EMI Music, Capitol Records' parent company.
1962 - Dimension Records releases The Cookies' single "Chains", written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and later covered by The Beatles, with "Stranger In My Arms" on the flip side, is released
1963 - The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, meets with TV variety show host Ed Sullivan in Epstein's suite at the Delmonico Hotel in New York City to arrange the band's first two appearances on Sullivan's show in February 1964
1963 - Liberty Records releases Billy J. Kramer and The Dakota's single "I'll Keep You Satisfied" (written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) with "I Know" on the flip side. Liberty Records catalog is currently owned by EMI Music, Capitol Records' parent company.
1965 - The management company Nemperor Artists Limited is incorporated. The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is one of the company's founding directors.
1968 - Apple Records releases its first non-soundtrack album, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins", after the cover art - a self portrait photo of both artists standing in a full frontal nude pose - is rejected by EMI and Capitol Records. The album is was licensed for distribution to Track Records in the UK and Tetragrammaton Records in the US.
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin (born Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin), Golden Globe and Academy Award winning composer of film scores (including the song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'(The Ballad of High Noon)" which was one of Tex Ritter's biggest Capitol Records hits), dies in London, England at age 85 and was later was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
1998 - EMI/Toshiba, Capitol Records distributor in Japan, releases Capitol Records band Megadeth's five track instrumental EP "Cryptic Sounds (No Voices in Your Head)" on a CD which is sold only in Japan
1995 - Smashing Pumpkins' Virgin Records album "Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness" hit #1 on the U.S. album chart. Virgin Records is currently a subsidiary of Capitol Records and Capitol's parent company, EMI Music, currently controls Virgin's catalog.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1918 - The Allied and Central Powers sign an armistice agreement at 5 a.m. in Marshal Foch's railway car in the Forest of Compiegne, France which officially ends the first World War. One year later, United States president Woodrow Wilson declares the day a permanent national holiday called Armistice Day which will, in 1954, be renamed to Veterans' Day.
1932 - The National Broadcasting Company opens its new studios at Radio City in New York City which includes a gala celebration program at Radio City Music Hall
1938 - On her radio program, Kate Smith introduces Irving Berlin's song "God Bless America", giving it its first public performance. Berlin wrote the tune in 1917 but it "sat in the trunk" until Ms. Smith's performance.